"Pieces of April"

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This can be considered a sort of darker version of "Little Miss Sunshine". Rebel young woman April lives in an inner city slum apartment with her black boyfriend and has invited her estranged mother ( who is dying of metastisized brest cancer) and family from the suburbs to vist her and the boyfriend for Thanksgiving dinner. The film cuts between the dysfucntional family on their way and April's mostly futile attempts to ask complete starngers in her building to loan her the use of an oven to cook her turkey, her own oven being broken. Along the way she befrends a variety of neighbors of differing racial backgrounds and languages and then the family finally arrives. A truly wonderful film, a mix of comedy and situations that will make everyone think of the their own family history. This one joins the great Thanksgiving films like "Hannah and her Sisters", "Broadway Danny Rose", and "Avalon". It has run recently on the IFC Cahannel and may again in the near future, If so, son't miss it.

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Topic - "Pieces of April" - rico 09:24:00 02/10/07 (0)

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